Oliver was the most popular name for male newborns in the UK last year. And Olivia was the most popular female name. In London, it was Amelia and Mohammed and in Ireland it was Jack and Emily.
So what about Sweden in 2018? Just-released information from Sweden’s office of statistics give us the following answer.
The most popular top 5 names for male newborns were:
- William
- Liam
- Noah
- Lucas
- Oliver
In fact, there are 44010 males in Sweden with the name William. And 58 females!
And for newborn girls it was:
- Alice
- Maja
- Lilly
- Ella
- Wilma
Interestingly, there are 38957 females called Alice in Sweden. And 22 men!
The names Ture, Lias and Amir are the fastest climbing names in the list of boys’ names. And for girls, Hailey och Bianca. The names Sebastian, Neo, Simon, Emelie, Ellinor, Idun and Noomi have left the top 20 list.
If you want to see how many people have your name in Sweden, go to svenskanamn.alltforfaldrar.se
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Reblogged this on My Inner MishMash and commented:
Yaay! My curiosity has been quenched! Swedish ranking of most popular names in 2018 has just been released a little while ago! And so I reblog the post from Watching The Swedes about most popular of them. It seems like William and Alice are ruling again. Which ones out of all these mentioned here do you like the most? Off to look up the whole statistics now. 😀